It is fabulous to be appreciated. Teachers are often taken for granted, ridiculed, disrespected and bullied. So when we are given a compliment or a gift, it can make provide the strength and optimism required to manage through the hard times.

If you assault a teacher your legal penalty should be greater than if you committed the same act on a stranger. It is absolutely essential that we protect our teachers by making an example of students like the one above.

Teachers are not paid to be liked, and sometimes it’s better for the students when they’re not, but it makes the job so much more satisfying when your students care about you. This video above shows what a little recognition can do to a teacher.

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Some will watch the teacher in the video above and think that he looks soft, weak and defeated. I think he handled the situation brilliantly.

Forget about classroom management gurus and 6 step strategies for classroom control, when a student decides that he detests you enough to blow cigar smoke in your face, there’s nothing you can do about it.

The kid in this video is likely to get in a world of trouble. But if I were the principal, I wouldn’t stop there. I would happily punish the entire class for their laughter and encouragement. Shame on them!

ISIS is evil, and it can only take an evil organisation to make teachers the target of terror. Teachers almost universally choose their profession based on the desire to give back and make an indelible contribution. To paint this as an act of intolerance or brainwashing is astonishing in its lack of perception and capacity to see hatred in something which is plainly good.

The 45-year-old teacher was stabbed in the side and throat while preparing for his class at a primary school in Aubervilliers in northeastern suburbs of Paris, but his life was not in danger, a police source said.

The attacker was dressed in painter’s overalls and a balaclava and arrived without a weapon but grabbed what appeared to be a box cutter that was lying in the classroom as well as a pair of scissors.

According to local prosecutors the man shouted: “This is Daesh. This is a warning.”

Daesh is another name for IS.

The brief exchange was reported by a witness working inside the school.

I really loved the first part of the teacher’s response. It is balanced, persuasive and strong. I wasn’t as big a fan of the sarcasm at the end. I don’t blame him for sending up the parent, but I’m afraid he may have undermined the points he so succinctly made early in his text.